Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Again human victims have been offered as a sacrifice to the greedy idol of a new religion, the religion of speed, which fascinates our youth to the extent often of replacing in their souls their ancient religion...
...When the flagship of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, the City of New York, left Manhattan on August 26, it looked as if this would be one trip on which there would be no Negro. But Robert White Lanier, a 20-year-old Negro youth from Brunswick, Ga., via Jersey City, thought differently. He is evidently one of those youths filled with the spirit of adventure, since he had hiked across the continent some time before. At any rate, he concealed himself aboard the City of New York, and was not discovered until the bark was well...
...named after the Most Blessed Conception of the Virgin Mary continued the focus of Mexican news last week. She had been besmirched (TIME, Sept. 3). A youth and a girl had confessed that she was the "master mind" of a group of Roman Catholics who finally persuaded a fanatic to assassinate President-elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July 30). In the face of such testimony Mother Superior Concepcion remained calm and demanded to be faced by her accusers last week...
...invent lies, Eulogio Gonzales," she said to the youth who had informed against her. "Tell the truth, Eulogio, even though it cost you your life...
Jumpy police officials read the demand of Hindenburg for action, justice. They acted. Soon Silesia breathed easier at the arrest of a notoriously vicious and possibly lunatic youth, who, the pouncing police charged, had murdered Herr und Frau Tschirpe-though no theory as to why he should have done so was announced last week...